Delodephius wrote:Am I to assume it is the fault of your American impatience?

I really don't care what you ascribe it to. Graphics are all well and good, but they should exist to improve the presentation of information, not to impede it. If all I want is a sequence of pretty pretty pictures, I'll go look on Flickr.

But wait, are you talking about loading of the videos or the screen? Because I download videos (on YouTube for example) on average the same speed it is playing. The screen on the websites takes only about 5-10 seconds to load.